The Third Appellate District granted a petition for writ of mandate. The court held that a trial court erred in granting class certification where common issues did not predominate on diverse real property owners’ and businesses’ claims alleging overall economic loss and reduction in property values from a state agency’s closure of a lake to eradicate an invasive fish species.
In 2007, the California State Department of Fish and Game (DFG) attemped to eradicate northern pike, an invasive fish species, from Lake Davis and its tributaries in Plumas County. DFG did so in order to preserve tourism in the area and to prevent the fish from migrating to other bodies of water.
